BlackBerry Maker RIM Reports Earnings: What to Watch For

3/27/2013 2:45PM

When Research In Motion reports its fourth-quarter earnings Thursday, investors and analysts will be keeping a sharp eye for any indication of whether or not the company’s long-awaited new BlackBerry is selling well. Will Connors reports.

This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.

... I ... the ... what ... investors expecting from Black parade today as a ... still shot of Research in Motion blank for a company as it is now up about one percent ... welcome to Digits I'm Simon Constable will Connors joins us now from our bureau in to run so it's been that keeping a ... close eye on Black parade ... well ... thanks for joining us the die if a black for a walk so what do investors wanted to die ... tomorrow actually ... a sorry history some again the non thought it was so was to die ... we just saw that again ... the story well will slow down ... what will Invesco's white hair from Black three when the report this quarter's earnings ... Killik DNA lines still shot of Research in Motion Black parade as it is now up about one percent ... welcome to Digits I'm Simon Constable will Connors joins us now from Toronto was being shipping is beady eye on Black Friday and I well thanks a bailout ... thanks ... to tell us why investors want to know when BlackBerry reports earnings ... I will be looking for a few things out ... first almost partly any general indication of how sales of light breeze new phone um ongoing ... the phone's been available in places like Canada the UK in Indonesia ... for about a month so it was not a whole lot of time ... investors looking for any kind of sign that sales of been been going well ... as though the loss in the U S just came out this past week ... and a launch ... um didn't go so well least ... the first few days so ... I had a positive note that this that this phones are selling those of the markets will be the biggest sign for the company ... found that will be a good sign of the U S smartphone market is still very very import Wanaka cannot be ... honorable emphasize Soca if it if you want to over emphasize ... if they've done well in the overseas markets and the news out of the US is bad ... where old ... investors give them a bond ... I think so because ... they get a lot of their subscribers in their users from overseas and thus have been the story for him last ... couple of years they've been able to domains and ... strong cash position because of those overseas markets ... down so even if the U S those are grey which the Prado on over the quarter anyway ... the vessels will be cheered as some after doing even reasonably well overseas ... now one of things that we know about this launch is this event biggest award Chevron them and spending money on people be looking to cash ... in Mumbai ... read a mean RIM executives say their spending in the hundreds of millions of dollars I think ... in all the related costs outside of interactive TV and Web advertising will ... push set up even more ... on the head of close to three billion dollars in cash last quarter so most people expect that to ... to do in a pretty rapidly ... both last quarter in coming quarters as they try to get these phones on people's hands ... not an easy filling and fussing in the morning seven seven AM ET on Monday followed by a ... conference call that will be with the comments will be very important one that because that's when management gets to ... give that view of things was so warm so that things will investors one a k a ... month idled ... Craig size allows the scene of a fund sells looking for any kind of ... clues as to whether it is ... reaching out to potential partners they talked and past ... internally about ... partnering with detention all licensees elections on the BlackBerry ... software security software ... so look ready to clues that they are restarting those kinds of socks ... on people think that's the future for the company and they will be a stand alone ... in a device maker but the be some kind of nice player so any CoCos like that will be ... overlooked for closely and then usually ... executives and pass covers cause of the spotted made ... potential of mistakes in they said things they probably wish they hadn't spent so ... I think only will we listen very closely ... to the coffers of ... May including including hero thank you very much will cause the will Street gentle coming to us ... from Toronto Canada Mallmann will we get the results I'm Simon Constable ... and this was digits